And we still have swathes of Lemmy screaming that we need to call the Democrats and that they aren’t useless as a party and that calls and emails are a valid and productive method of getting favorable action done.

And then the DNC have a private meeting to tell all the leaders of the leftist holding pens to get a better leash.

Who is we? Lots of places do communal bath houses. Japan has an entire industry around it. Mass transit is also highly prevalent.

Yes there will always be some level of individual desire to do things or need in some cases but communal projects are useful and common I don’t get the dismissal of that for energy creation something we long ago figured out was better to be done at scale and distributed after.

This is neoliberalism and treating it like it’s the only way to exist. It’s a failure of consideration or imagination. Either way your take is not right for that.

Hell yeah. I do Thursdays and man people remember to come to me on Thursday.

Yeah this does prove a failing point for the fediverse that is an important part of larger adoption. This still mostly exists in large part by communal effort even if the community doesn’t appreciate it or recognize it

Those are just reasonable people and I have never met one that has been rich that way through frugality alone and anywhere near the level of wealth of those that aim to show it off even if the frugal person’s bank account is far more in the green than the consumerist.

Martini glasses:

Art deco French cocktail ware from the 1920s designed to be dumb but bold and it’s ease of breaking showed a wealth during a terrible time.

Wealthy people love to break their stuff almost on purpose to make sure it stays special and then regular people buy into it

It looks like someone took the original movie and passed it through an AI filter to make it look real.

It is uncanny and bad looking in this lifeless way.

A reverse Nazism if you will.

Wow. Ok.

You know you can make something and it still be bad right?

It’s not besides the point. It’s in fact the whole point. That’s why there is a fan edit and a response and a backlash to the backlash.

All of this is the point here. You can’t handwave away the other side cause you don’t agree or want to handle that argument.

Her eyes look bored and like she’s trying to look serious. Like she’s worried you realized you can smell her last fart.